NEW YORK (OSV News) — Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York urged Empire State lawmakers to reject legislation that would legalize physician-assisted suicide.

The New York Assembly April 29 passed a bill that would allow a terminally ill adult with a prognosis of six months or less to request from a physician a medication that would hasten his or her death, which the state’s Catholic bishops oppose.

In a May 29 piece for The Wall Street Journal, Cardinal Dolan praised state officials for other state efforts to prevent suicide and argued that the physician-assisted suicide bill is contradictory to those efforts.

“Which is why I am more than puzzled, I am stunned, when I read that New York lawmakers are on the verge of legalizing suicide — not by leaping from a bridge but via a poison coc

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